🧠 When I Mentioned Einstein, Everything Change...

peterthanosauthor
Jul 26
2 min read

Why a one-line name-drop broke open the world of Celeritous

I handed my screenplay to Jeff Kitchen, a veteran story analyst and critic.It was personal. Emotional. A clone story set in the near future, where Travis Kilbourn discovers he's not just his father’s son — he is his father.

The story was tight. It hit hard. Jeff was into it. Then I dropped one line:

“Einstein was no big deal. Like Ramses or Thomas Jefferson — so long as you had a strand of hair, anyone could be cloned.”

Jeff looked up. His whole posture changed.

“I was into the story... then you mentioned Einstein. I wanted to know more about him..."

That moment changed everything.

It wasn’t just a personal identity crisis anymore. This was a world where history could be reloaded. A future where memory, science, and power collided in terrifying ways. And Einstein? He wasn’t just trivia. He was a warning.

That moment led me to rework everything — from a personal screenplay to the full-length sci-fi thriller now known as Celeritous.

🔁 From Personal to Philosophical

What happens when the most brilliant minds in history are resurrected… just to be used?

In Celeritous, Einstein isn’t revered — he’s digitized. Fragmented. Watched. He wakes up in the grid, alone, remembering who he was — and slowly realizing who brought him back.

“They didn’t resurrect me to understand the universe. They brought me back to control it.”

He becomes a ghost in the machine. A guide. A prisoner. Maybe even a savior.

💡 Why Einstein?

Because he understood the terror of his own brilliance.

He opened the door to a new understanding of the universe — and then lived long enough to regret what mankind did with it. That tension… that remorse… that’s what makes Einstein more than a name-drop.

It makes him the moral axis of this story.